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Friday, 22nd June, 2018: FleishmanHillard (FH) has been awarded three awards at the 2018 Cannes International Festival of Creativity. The awards include a PR Lion and a Direct Lion for its work with Philips and Ogilvy Singapore on the Dutch Masterjuices campaign; and a Pharma Lion for The MSunderstood Café, on behalf of Roche Ireland and MS Ireland. The Cannes Lions Awards are recognized as the most prestigious awards of the communications industry throughout the...

A boardroom in the midst of a full blown crisis is not a place for the faint-hearted. The stakes are high and very serious decisions, that may have long-term business implications, need to be made quickly and, often without all of the necessary information available. However a crisis does not need to be a business-ending event if both the board and the executive team are prepared in advance to handle one and, sometimes it can...

FleishmanHillard Ireland's very own Orla Burke, EMEA healthcare lead shares details and insights into the multi award winning Breathless Choir campaign with Communications Director Magazine. Hitting high notes in health care communication with the Philips Breathless Choir In late 2015 a group of people who’d never met before came together to create a choir. This choir was unusual as breathing is a constant challenge for all 18 members. With the support of health technology company Philips...

This week we announced the extension of Centra’s sponsorship of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship which will continue to 2019, in support of Centra’s ongoing Live Well programme. To mark the announcement four of the country’s best hurlers, Henry Shefflin, Austin Gleeson, Podge Collins and Seamus Hickey, lined out in CLG Na Fianna in Glasnevin. The Live Well initiative encourages healthy living, provides education and promotes activity. Through the hurling sponsorship, Centra will encourage fans the...

FleishmanHillard oversaw the communications again this year for the Limerick School of Art and Design (LIT) Fashion Show that took place on Thursday 12th May. The much anticipated Graduate Fashion saw 27 graduates from the largest fashion degree programme in Ireland showcased their creations. Ranked among the world’s top 50 fashion colleges, Limerick School of Art and Design is continuing to mold future Irish designers. A collection which encapsulates the recurring nature of Ireland’s housing...

This week announced the extension of Centra’s sponsorship of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship which will continue to 2019, in support of Centra’s ongoing Live Well programme. To mark the announcement four of the country’s best hurlers, Henry Shefflin, Austin Gleeson, Podge Collins and Seamus Hickey, lined out in CLG Na Fianna in Glasnevin. The Live Well initiative encourages healthy living, provides education and promotes activity. Through the hurling sponsorship, Centra will encourage fans the length...

FleishmanHillard, which celebrates 25 years in Ireland this year, was given due praise by Phil Thomas, CEO of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity during his visit to Dublin this week to deliver his ‘Creativity Matters’ talk. In 2013 FleishmanHillard Dublin became the first Irish PR firm to win a Cannes Lion for their ‘P&G Proud Sponsor of Mum’ campaign. Speaking at the event Rhona Blake, MD of FH Dublin said it was in everybody’s...

FH Dublin Wins Irish Sponsorship Award for BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition Celebrating its 50th Anniversary In January the team from FH Dublin led by Gill Madden and supported by Maria McGrath managed the PR activities for Ireland’s prestigious BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, January 2014 marked the biggest and the best exhibition in the competition’s incredible tenure and a real celebration for BT, the organisers and sponsors. That...

Web Summit likes to go out with a bang and Thursday was no exception with Peter Thiel of Paypal and Facebook courting the crowd, followed by U2’s Bono closing out proceedings at the event dubbed #DavosForGeeks. During the day Lorraine Twohill, global VP of Marketing for Google, discussed programmatic buying. Precision programmatic buying is a marketing goal for Google itself, having set a target of 60% of digital spend globally to be bought programmatically. Programmatic...